Displaced persons
Subtitle: the literature of exile from Cicero to Boethius
By: Jo-Marie Claassen.
Publisher: Duckworth
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Criticism and interpretation; Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, -- ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation; Boethius, -- d. 524 -- Criticism and interpretation; Exiles' writings, Latin -- History and criticism; Latin literature -- History and criticism; Exiles -- Rome -- History; Narration (Rhetoric); Rhetoric, Ancient
Description: "Exile is a political act, involving loss of power. Five authors, all exiled from Rome, are examined in this book, which analyses the literature of exile and takes its consideration through to the virtual end of the Classical era: the author examines the various means of literary sublimation that individual exiles - Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostom and Anicius Manlius Boethius - found for the feeling of social and political isolation that they experienced."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Exile is a political act, involving loss of power. Five authors, all exiled from Rome, are examined in this book, which analyses the literature of exile and takes its consideration through to the virtual end of the Classical era: the author examines the various means of literary sublimation that individual exiles - Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostom and Anicius Manlius Boethius - found for the feeling of social and political isolation that they experienced.
Notes: "ROMA."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-335) and indexes.